Anyone can host a Mead-Up
What Is a Mead-Up?
A Mead-Up is a gathering at which people discuss an interesting topic, based on pre-assigned background readings, and using suggested questions to get the conversation started. From contemporary social issues, to hot button policy debates, to cultural literacy, to issues in science and technology, a Mead Seminar is an opportunity to expand your horizons, learn from others, and challenge your own thinking.
How Does It Work?
Browse the topics, pick one you think your friends would enjoy, and send them an invitation with a suggested time and place. A Mead-Up can be held anywhere: at a friend’s home, a local restaurant, a public library, even online. Everyone reads the background materials in advance, which usually takes less than an hour.
The only rule: be open to the opinions of others.
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Meet Boots.
Mead Seminars are named for legendary University of Virginia professor, Ernest “Boots” Mead. Mr. Mead held a small seminar each spring for over forty years. His students picked the topics and led the discussions while he served as sage, mentor, and provocateur. Mr. Mead believed that we all have the responsibility to be informed citizens of the world and encouraged his students to be venturesome, to look beyond what they currently know, and see what is on the other side.
